Word: bostonians
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Professor Coolidge is a 100 percent Bostonian and a bicycle enthusiast. He was born in 1873, graduated in the Class of 1895, and began teaching Mathematics two years later at Groton School. He moved to Harvard in 1900, became a professor in 1918 after winning the Cross of the Legion of Honor in France. Now head of the department of Mathematics and periodical (average every five years) author, he is one of the best known, mathematicians in the world. After writing on the Complex Domain (1924), he does not find it hard to count his eight children...
First to break the tape was Boston's 119-lb. Francis Darrah, a seasoned distance runner at 25, whose time of 2 hr., 8 min., 14.6 sec. was the fastest ever made on foot up the mountain. Six minutes later came Paul Donato, another Bostonian, who (like Darrah) had eaten a pound of rare beefsteak for breakfast. Loudest cheers went to 45-year-old Clyde Ormsby of Colorado Springs, oldest entrant in the race, who finished seventh. Called upon by broadcasters to say a few words over the radio, Mr. Ormsby was in a sorry predicament. The patrolman...
...wedding day was the biggest that sleepy Nahant has known since Roosevelt I paused there in 1902 to visit Senator Henry Cabot Lodge's grandfather. Anne's Boston background is thoroughly Republican (though not so dramatically Tory as Ethel du Font's) but many a Bostonian declined an invitation to the wedding reception. Startled Mother Clark, after planning for 400 guests, received White House requests for 550 invitations, most of which were accepted. The Secret Service cautiously wired off the narrow causeway leading out to the village from the mainland, made guests walk to the church. Cars...
...golf was to purchase a $40 scarlet coat with brass buttons, golf was the pastime of the "400." Its players were not only kidded on the vaudeville stage, but scorned by the more experienced, less gaudy British. In 1913, however, when an obscure 20-year-old Bostonian named Francis Ouimet beat Britain's famed barnstorming professionals, Harry Vardon and Ted Ray, for the U. S. Open championship, Great Britain began to raise her eyebrows. And in 1922, after an amazing crop of young golfers had sprouted up all over the U. S., Great Britain agreed to play...
...years. His magnificently drawn and sometimes vivid portraits have the air of life in a darkened parlor, not the sunny tavern-and-haystack life which Duveneck and his pupils actually led. Artist Duveneck entered parlor society briefly in 1886 through his marriage to Elizabeth Boott, a refined Bostonian traveler straight out of Henry James. After her death in 1888 his painting became uncertain, yielded to impressionist influences, infrequently showed his old spontaneity...